The English Literatures of America

This anthology surveys the emergence of Anglo-American cultures in the first period of the European empires. It offers a wide range of voices from both sides of the ocean: early texts of Native Americans, texts from elite as well as common cultures, Puritans in New England as well as the grand cosmopolitan culture of imperial London. This anthology includes the work of Francis Bacon, Adam Smith, Andrew Marvell, Alexander Pope as well as that of Wheatley and Edwards.